Opinion
2:19-cv-2198 AC
06-08-2021
PAUL NIVARD BEATON, Plaintiff, v. MODOC COUNTY SHERIFF, et al., Defendants.
ORDER
ALLISON CLAIRE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, has filed a request that is characterized on the docket as a request to e-file. ECF No. 17. Review of the document indicates that plaintiff seeks not to file electronically, but for his complaint to be served pursuant to the court's E-Service pilot program for civil rights cases for the Eastern District of California. By separate order, plaintiff's amended complaint (ECF No. 9) has been screened and ordered to be served. Accordingly, the request for service will be denied as moot.
Plaintiff is informed that the court's E-Service pilot program is available only when the defendants to be served are employees of CDCR. Plaintiff is proceeding against a Modoc County defendant, and service must be accomplished in the traditional manner as set forth in the order directing service. Plaintiff must follow those directions in order for his amended complaint to be served on defendant Potap.
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiffs request for e-service, ECF No. 17, is DENIED as moot.